Word: withstood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proceeded on a long coast to the moon. Before they bedded down for their first night in space, Conrad and Bean made an unscheduled inspection of Intrepid while Astronaut Gordon remained at the controls of the command module. To their relief, the LM's electronic gear had also withstood the sudden pulse of current. By now the astronauts were in such high spirits that they asked Mission Control to replay the tense communications of the first few seconds. "We're still laughing, trying to remember what we said and did," said Conrad...
Much of the credit for the attitude of the Washington cops lies with Mayor Walter Washington, who must have sympathized with the purpose of the march and must have withstood a terrible struggle for power with Nixon men like Richard Klcindeinst...
...obscurity. But it seems to me that, while not necessarily agreeing with the CRIMSON stand, there is unquestionably a moral and scholarly basis for agreement. The U. S. Army has presumably been fighting more than ghosts for seven years, and the goals and motivation of the forces that have withstood that onslaught, the National Liberation Front, are at least worthy of respect. In any event, the self-righteous claim to wisdom fo the Harvard experts cannot be taken seriously...
...Mobilized. After failing in their first attempt to set off widespread violence, the radicals tried again the next day. Seventy helmeted Weather-women, many equipped with clubs, attempted to march on an armed-forces induction center. But the Amazons fared no better than their men. A line of police withstood their charge, arrested twelve, and dispersed the rest...
...come to represent a form of "national Communism" that left him out of both the Chinese and the Soviet orbits, but prompted both powers to court him. With the limited resources of a tiny impoverished Asian nation?and with vast help from Peking and Moscow?he had withstood the enormous firepower of the mightiest industrial nation on earth. In so doing, he had forced one U.S. President out of office and tarnished the bright memory of another. He had reached deep into American society through a war that affects the disaffected young, the restless blacks, the threatened guardians...